Window-shade-roller bracket.



W. B. CASWELL.

wmoow SHADE ROLLER BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27.19l7.

Patented May 21,1918.

WILLIAM B. CASWELL, 0F NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-FIFTH TO ANN E. CASWELL, OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.

wmnow-sHAnE-Romna BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2 1, 1918.

Application filed September 27, 1917. Serial No. 193,573.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. OAswnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade-Roller Brackets, of which the following i a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in adjustable and detachable window shade brackets, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention isto provide a simply constructed device which may be applied without structural change to the window casings or frame without marring or otherwise deteriorating the same.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device wherein the adjustable portion is held by friction only and adapted to shade rollers of various shapes and sizes.

With these and other objects in view the invention consist in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper portion of a window including the casings and a portion of the upper sash with the improvement applied.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the blank from which the supporting portion or bracket of the improved device is constructed.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of the supporting or bracket portion of the improved device completed.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the adjustable shade roller supports.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device includes a bracket or suporting member adapted to be attache to the window frame or casing and a shade roller supporting member adapted to be slidably engaged with the bracket. The bracket portion of the device is formed from sheet metal, preferably steel, bent or struck up into the required shape, and including a body portion 10 having coacting U-shaped clefts in spaced relation whereby tongues indicated at 11 are produced. The free ends of the tongues are bent into flat hook-like shape as shown in Fig. 4 whereby an inwardly projecting lip 12 and stop shoulder 13 is formed on each tongue. The body portions of the tongues are also bent obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the body 10, and the body 10 together with its tongues being of steel, may be tempered and the tongues thus rendered resilient. The

. tongues 11 are pierced to receive the holding screws 14 whereby the bracket device is secured to the casing 15 or other portion of the window, and by directing the tongues obliquely to the plane of the body 10 of the bracket, the heads of the screws 14 may be utilized to compress the tongues, as hereafter explained.

An outwardly directed stop rib 16 is formed upon the body 10 between the confronting ends of the tongues 11, the rib being preferably produced by pressing a portion of the body outwardly, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

By this means the terminals 12 and the rib 16 coact with the tongues 11 to form a yieldable socket to receive a fiat bar or plate 17 and hold the same by friction. At one end the bar 17 is bent at an angle to the body of the bar as shown at 21. The outwardly bent portion 21 will be perforated to receive the bearings or journals of a shade roller, the perforation at one side being circular to receive the circular journal at one end of the roller and the aperture of the member 21 at the other side slotted to receive the flat journal at the other end of the roller, the portion 21 serving the same purpose as the ordinary brackets of a curtain fixture. The material from which the bracket member is made possesses sufficient resiliency to cause the bent over portions 12 to engage the bar members 17 with sufficient force to hold them in position against the strains of the shade roller when in use, while at the same time when a sufficient force is applied, the bars are adjustable in the bracketstoqenable the device :tobe adapted to shade rollers of various lengths, as will be obvious.

e 'devicezis simple i cons ruction, an be inexpensively manufiaotured and applied by any person without any previous skill or knowledge.

Having thus described the invention, W at as claimed asmew is:

A shade roller bracket comprising afiat body having coacting clamping tongues out Copies-of this patent may bembtained fqr out therefrom and struck up from the body and directed obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the same, each tongue having a .Qlamping 211p, and fiastening ids-vices pierc- 15 Intesti-mony whereof I aflix my signature. 20

five cents each; by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington,'D. 'G. 

